An insane man kills a mad scientist, assumes his identity, and proceeds to cause mayhem among the doctor's patients and acquaintances. Case in point: Mr. Buckley, who develops a case of the screaming meemies. As in, "Dear God, I want to get naked and strangle a manatee for mother! MOTHER!"

This is an insane classic that deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with PLAN 9. Esper definitely gave the 1930s audiences what they wanted, scenes they couldn't see in mainstream Hollywood flicks... orangutan men abducting topless women, a guy eating a cat's eyeball...

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"Clive [Barker]'s idea of a great time is to have a nightmare about a woman with three heads and no skin who flays your body with a pitchfork. To give you some idea, NIGHTBREED has over 200 pus monsters, including one guy with a crescent moonhead like the McDonald's commercial and a fat guy with snakes that pop out of his stomach and eat your face off, and these are the GOOD GUYS. These are the people we're supposed to LIKE."-Joe Bob on NIGHTBREED

Yes, Phyllis Diller plays the Buckley woman, but not THAT Phyllis Diller.

What realy hot me was the coroner's assistant's assistqant, who is clearly drunk or high and is directly reading his lines form the cue cards.

I would swear they had written thewhole movie with lugopsi in the part of the old doctor; the actor even seems to be imitating Bela--badly. Maybe they wanted Dwight Frye for the asistant as well; he certainly seems Renfieldesque.